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Aug 24, 2013

“Flushhhh!!!!!!”, down goes the flush of the toilet as I got relieved of my waste. “Hooooohh!”, I exhaled a sigh of relief and took a deep
breath before the mirror in the rest room of my office. Watching myself relaxed into the
mirror, I smiled at my reflection and came out merrily, whistling and humming
random songs with myself, “laa la la laaa”.

Quite casually
I stepped out of the rest room and started moving towards my desk that a loud bam of emergency announcements
thudded my ears with thumping sounds of “Fire Fire!!!…Pomp Pomp!!!”. The same
iterated for few more times turning me nervous. “Wallah! What is going on?” I questioned to
my astounded self. Few more minutes passed and some earsplitting noise from
sirens resonated to add to my annoyance and more to my surprise.

It sounded as an
emergency call and I turned too scary looking around chaotically to see how the
people react. Period! Couldn’t see anyone around, now my fear started getting
aggravated and my heartbeats started to pump up out of the rhythmic 72 per
minute. The worry on my face was visible from the rush of sweat running down my
face in response to the hormones that instinct fear.

Running for my
life, I rushed to the lift that was shutdown in emergency. This added more to
my uneasiness. In no time, I ran towards the stairs and moved
down hurriedly panting like anything. I was out of breath, running for my
life that seemed running away from me fearing some mysterious danger. I was
feeling as if I am the Will Smith from I am legend looking for a trace
of life in an alienated and outlandish world.

While descending
the stairs, I was struggling at every step to see the open air and a safer
zone. Finally after stumbling and tumbling, I landed on the ground
floor throbbing and panting for air. All drenched in sweat, I took a
pause and leaned forward, with my hands touching my knees and my
head hanging down to ground, to catch hold of my losing
breath. Ho!! I lifted myself up and as I looked around, I was
dumbfounded.

My,Oh,my, I
could not believe what the reality presented to me and my eyes protested back
in surprise. I rubbed my eyes in an attempt to see the reality more.
Again, I was spellbound. My mouth was wide open, short of words, with the
wide-eyed me, watching people relaxed, chatting, gabbing and laughing. “Oh
My God!!” I uttered to my break my surprise. It was an enumerate crowd
of people, all relaxed and all busy with their respective circles, rejoicing
their complimentary time thanks to a mock drill that was going on. “A damn mock drill”, I ridiculously
murmured to myself before I rested my broken self on the parapet.

Finally, I took a
deep breath to comfort my puffed breathing. I smiled and I laughed… Ha-ha! Soon
my cardiograph jotted down to normal 72 per minute and I smiled at the people
around. I looked up into the air and smiled again for the reason unknown.

Well, as of
now when everything seems safe and sound, I feel next time even if the
real calamity bells the emergency whistles, I would rather be catching Z’s on
my desk and dreaming for a good life than chasing for a mock.

P.S. Mock drills
are important exercises awakening people about the various security measures to
be followed for safety. But the more important thing is that the mock drills
should really serve its purpose at the time of a real calamity. Because
everyone knows the story of the boy who cried wolf :D